The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-17
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

GEORGIA.
Whortleberiy hunting is in order.
Augusta has a steam laundry.
Milledgeville has negro turning white.
Rome has young mems prohibition club.
Capt Carlton, of Macon, has good crop
of lucerne
Gov. Gordon will attend Athens COM
mencement.
The blackberries are ripe and the Macon
ties are happy.
Poultry culture is becoming a great in
1ustry in Georgia.
Athens new opera house will be ready for
troupes by October.
Georgia will celebrate her second Arbor
day next November.
The stone work for Athens new buildings
comes from Lithonia.
DIR. E. C. Goodrich, City Physician of
Augusta, hes resigned
The hacon colored firemen continue to
practice every afternoon
There is talk of another cotton COM
press for Athens, at the e.. G.. and N de
pot.
The Augusta Clarke Light Infantry will
excurt on July 8 instead of June 25, as
stated.
The wharf at Naval City was completed
Az 10 DIV LtGb anu ID very
substantial.
The Eatonton Agricultural Club has de-
cided to make displays at the Macon and
Atlanta fairs
There will be nearly 2000 900 more brick in
Macon's new opera house than in the city
school building.
The Talbotton New Era is as full of good
local news as nut is of meat. 1t should be
well patronized.
There is whisky war in Greensboro,
and the lower grades of liquor sell two
drinks for nickel.
The Buckhead Baptist church. of Waynes-
boro, will celebrate its one hundredth ami
versary on Sept. II.
The merchants of Tentle bought about
1000 chickens last week, paying 1215c. to
25c. each for the same
A Pan Handle man ran eight miles the
other night for doctor, in one and quar-
ter hours. Watermelons!
Conductor Hutchins. on the Athens
branch, has two pet chickens on his train
which are perfectly tame.
II is stated that Phelan's Charlotte agent
has discovered $1,000 more cash liabilities
than at first calculated upon.
Monroe seems to be in trouble about her
board of Town Commissioners She "don't
understand" whether she has legal Town
SOuiiSiI VI llcb.
A negro is sueing the Athens Foundry for
damages, because he let a piece of iron fan
on his own foot Such damage suits are get
ting to be nuisance.
The Clerk of Gwinnett Superior Court
has within the last month recorded over 100
pages of mortgages. That is rather bad
showing for Gwinnett.
A meeting will be held in the Baptist
church at Butler, Sunday, June 10, for the
purpose of reviving the Taylor County Sun
day School Association.
The charter of Gainesville is to be amend
ed Most of the people of Franklin county,
or some of them at least, desire more eff
Gent drainage law also.
There is some talk of building a new
Baptist church in Gainesville. 1t ought to
be an easy matter for church 100 members
strong to buil ID new house.
Griffin public schools will close on Friday.
June 2l There will be no special exercises
but simply visiting day for friends and
parents, the same as last year
There wills be Sabbath school picnic at
Tirzah the Fourth of July. The programme
will consist of speeches. recitations. music
and last, but not least picnic dinner.
Georgia is credited with 5.291 Sabbath
schools, 283, Ala pupils and 30,sS7 teachers
A splendid showing for any State But
there is still room for even doubling this
amount.
The Gate City Guard have not VET
selected Captain to succeed Capt. Burke
Capt. Henry jackson has been urged to
take the position, but his business forces
him to decline.
Dunlap, the engineer who was injured on
the Pioneer excursion wreck, has brought
another suit for injuries, this time against
the r. and D. road. He lost his case against
the Northeastern.
MIR. b. H. Griffith has been appointed as
district superintendent Of the Georgia Sum
day School Association, composed of the
counties of Muscogee, Chattahoochee, Ma
rion, Talbot and Taylor.
r. L. Bloomfield, of Athens, ordered :, 900
brick shipped to Athens from Philadelphia
for his new buildings on CLAYTON street
Eight thousand brick were delivered on the
spot without one brick being broken.
man near High Shoals whipped his wife
last week because she wouldn't get up in
time to give him an early breakfast. She
will "quit him." but bought cloth to make
him several shirts before her departure.
The new bank to be established by the
Capital City Land and Improvement Com
pany will probably be located at the corner
of Alabama and Pryor streets, in the rooms
now occupied by Aaron Haas, Atlanta.
The Forrestville Methodist church. of
which Rev. E. w. Ballenger is pastor, is
now enjoying protracted meeting, which
has been going on for about one week. Rev
f., s. Hudson, of Cave Spring, has assisted
Atlanta will in all probability soon have
Zouave company, permission having been
received to organize one. A meeting of
those interested will soon be held, when
officers will be elected and the organization
completed.
Messrs Brooks and Lyle, of jefferson,
have started out with their travelling
thresher, and report from all sections Of the
county that the wheat crop is the best that
has been harvested for years, and that the
cotton crop is doing its best
no wonder Sam Jones bad a hard time in
Rome. The Bulletin scolds away thus!y:
There are a good many people in this town
so mean and stingy that il they were board
ing would want the landlord to reduce their
board bill if they were to lose two teeth"
\ negro woman, the wife of Andy Stew
art, who was killed few weeks ago on the
Coyington and Macon railroad by some
falling timbers while engaged in putting no
bridge over Cedar creek, has sued the road
for $4,000 damages Tor the loss of her hus-
band.
A class has been formed in GAINESVILLE
for the purpose Of studying the Loisettian
system OF improving tho memory II is said